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    The brilliance of My Brilliant Friend: this series gives us female lives in full | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    The TV version of Elena Ferrante’s great novel is faithful to the relationship at the book’s heart. And that feels revolutionary
    by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Nov 27, 2018 3 minutes
    My Brilliant Friend, TV adaptation. ‘That relationship is complicated and fraught and competitive, as well as being intimate and passionate and educative.’ Photograph: ©Wildside/Umedia 2018

    It’s always high-stakes viewing when a book you love is transferred to the screen. The world of the novel, vividly imagined, can feel flat and jarring when it’s beamed into being from another person’s brain. “That’s not how it’s supposed to be,” you think, because although the adored writer has sketched the outlines, someone else has art-directed it, colouring it in – more often than not in the wrong shades.

    This is precisely what I worried would happen in the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend, . How could anyone possibly succeed in translating

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